The Amphibian Visual System: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Katherine V. Fite

Mammal Teeth

During this particular ebook, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their foundation via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel lines the evolutionary background of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part one billion years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical teeth of early vertebrates grew to become the molars, incisors, and different kinds we see in mammals at the present time.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his kinfolk shared the outstanding adventure of heavily staring at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field open air the window in their woodland domestic. The journals within which the writer recorded his observations, and the eye-catching drawings he created, shape the center of this compelling book—a own account of an artist-naturalist’s existence with owls.

One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives

The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding “marvelous, mind-altering” (Los Angeles Times) insights and discoveries In his smooth classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and an excellent horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of girl Vertebrates specializes in the evolution of reproductive habit in lady vertebrates starting from fish to birds and people, together with problems with mate selection and different elements underlying girl attitudes towards men. It additionally seems on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among adult females; maternal habit; and the way women improve the funding obtained by means of their offspring from others.